I shared last week about my struggle with the April Maker Challenge, https://mieloabelo.com/ah-bittersweet-failure-reality-of-a-makers-life/. This week, I am sharing a success. After not being able to make my beading project work the way I wanted, I switched back to air dry clay.
Being so new at this medium, I have not felt quite confident enough to consider listing anything I make so far, but I really like how these turned out! So, I took a deep breath, made the listing, and submitted my entry to the goimagine Birds and Butterflies challenge. Imposter syndrome is a real thing!
To make these dangles, I used DAS air dry clay, white, a texture plate, Natural Earth Paint, which I mixed with a little water to thin it, and several coats of Natural Earth Paint Natural Varnish. You can learn more about Natural Earth Paint here: https://naturalearthpaint.com/
Once the dangles were completely dry, I paired them with shattuckite beads, due to their beautiful complementary hue. I found these beads at the International Gem and Jewelry Show this past January. According to Wikipedia, shattuckite is a somewhat rare copper silicate mineral, discovered in the Shattuck copper mines in Arizona, for which it was named.
I spent a couple of hours yesterday putting some video together and creating a silly background song using udio.com. Check it out on my YouTube channel.
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